I was recently sent a link to a major manufacturer’s web site, where a writer ask a question [below], since the BedBugs didn’t DIE and the 1-800-talk-in-circles customer service rep offered no real help, [except to buy more product], They contacted me, seeking real help.

Here’s the original web posting on [famous brand name you know] web site.

Hello,
I bought the [brand-name] bed bug and flea spray and completely sprayed my couches with this stuff. After a few hours they seem to be coming out in full force, are moving very fast and don’t seem to be dying. I managed to drown 3 of them in a container with this spray, but the ones on my couch just seem very hyped up like it just made them mad.

Did I do something wrong or does it take longer than 5 hours for them to die?

We do recommend waiting a day or so to evaluate the final results of a treatment. Please call us at 1-800-talk-in-circles, if you’re not seeing fewer Bed Bugs at that point and we’ll be happy to help you troubleshoot. Good Bye.

When I got this email, I had to call “Phoenix” because she included more info in the e-mail to me than appears of the web site, but info she shared with the [major-name-brand] company rep.

Here’s why I [*the Famous Mr BedBug] “knows” the product is ineffective, against Bedbugs. Without even reading the product contents label, Lets start with the fact that Fleas and BedBugs are entomologically different. “Bugs” are not all the same. Is there a product you could buy to kill both an Orka whale and a zebra? That’s a stupid example, but BedBugs are different than other “crawlie-things”. They have evolved to become more and more immune to the ever-more toxic chemicals used by LICENSED [please only hire state-licensed] Pest control operators. Professional PCOs have chemicals that are NOT available over-the-retail-counter. If a LICENSED pest control operator has a tough job killing Bedbugs, do you REALLY think a can of $19.99 “spray&pray” bug-juice will be effective?

Ants, roaches and fleas are STUPID, as I often say. They will happily walk thru a soup of poison and carry it back to the nest, killing others along the way. One of the big advertisers promote this as a benefit of their brand of bug-spray. Yes, that plan works for “stupid” bugs with simple nervous systems. BedBugs are NOT stupid. They smell poison and avoid it. BedBugs can hide in a “nest” [technically called a -harborage-] and wait-out your poison, for up to a year !!! Even professional entomologist debate HOW long BedBugs can last [between all-you-can-eat-buffet feedings of a tasty-human], but in the controlled environment of a lab, it’s about a year. I(*the famous MrBedBug) think it’s about 4-5 months in a real-world residential home/apartment.

toxic pesticle label for Bedbug products

HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW-
There is NO retail over-the-counter “bug-spray” available in the big-box stores that will be worth your time. ANY product that says it “Kills xyz AND BEDBUGS” is slipping past the weak US government EPA rules for product labeling. A product that kills a minimum number of BedBugs IN A CONTROLLED LAB, is not going to be the most effective way to clean a BedBug infestation in your home.

If you want to kill the BedBugs in your life, with a minimum of toxic chemicals in your living space, you’ll need to do the work. EcoBugFREE, the BedBug Eliminator, is a kid-safe+pet-friendly product. It will effectively Kill BedBugs, after 8-20 seconds of contact, but it is NOT a miracle product. You’ll still need to do the “work”. You must kill all the exist BedBugs where they hide and travel-paths, PLUS kill all the eggs, or the cycle repeats in a few days. It’s NOT what you want to hear, but there are NO simple or easy ways to get rid of a Bedbug infestation. You’ll need to go on a search/destroy mission, cleaning methodically the way we describe, elsewhere in this web site.

Bedbugs CAN be “defeated”. They are persistant, but creatures of habit. If you want to learn HOW TO AVOID BEDBUGS, Get the facts. All the latest research is compiled at www.FLfresh.com Get effective “Tips and Tricks” on how to avoid a Bedbug infestation in the first place, and learn the options you have to clean a BedBug infestation in your home or apartment/condo and workplace. Separate FACT from FOLK-LORE and Myth at www.FLfresh.com , the national distributor of EcoBugFREE, the BedBug Eliminator .

The more you know about HOW BedBugs live, hide, feed, breed and travel, the better you can protect yourself in the “BedBugs Wars”.

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I wish I had read this BEFORE I wasted my money at Wal-Mart and HomeDepot. The guy advertising here in Columbus is NOT a state-licensed pest control company either. There was a TV story about unlicensed home repairs on the TV the other night, so when the guy showed up, I ask and he started pedaling like he was on a bicycle. NOPE, no way. If I’m payin’ big bucks I want a real bug-man. Finding your blog was like a miracle. I got this. Thanks to my new masked-man hero, Mr Bedbug. Do you had a movie in the works? You should join the Avengers.

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hello spammer. I’ve editted your post to make a point. The internet is full of stupidity about Bedbugs. Hired-spammers that we usually block, [so you don’t see their ads about Russian Brides and Little Blue Pills] are flooding the internet with comments about the “flavor-of-the-month” bedbug spray. DO NOT BE FOOLED. there is no simple “spray-and-pray [that it works] solution to a BedBug infestation. The product we talk about is non-toxic [kid-safe+pet-friendly] but even it requires WORK. You must hunt them down, find ALL the hiding places and then use the product. It’s not easy, even with all of our advice and NO FUN. Learn how to avoid Bedbugs in the first place. THAT’s the best plan. If you can’t/don’t, then be smart, start early and “have no mercy”. KILL them. KILL them all, the 1st time and be done. [and BTW, if the product hyped in the post we editted was SO great…. you wouldn’t need to use it over and over… right? LOL

We understand Willy, but there are SO many variables. We try not to “write a novel” in response to each article or TV report. Trust me, we argue over this topic, daily. [my editor chops-up my “long versions” almost every day. LOL
I’m happy you found help/good info.